My head hurts! MR had a gazzillion different brake arrangements !Mr Essery’s fine work has photos of D305 with - brakes on one side- brakes on both sides handles on one- brakes on both sides with handles on both sides, but facing the same way!

I think as a rule of thumb the number of brake bits increases with the date so the early version would have minimal braking and later, say about 1937, would have levers both sides at the very least if not brakes and levers. Your model has bottom doors IIRC so brakes and levers both sides would *probably* be safe. Now I’ll sit back and wait for the flood of pictures from assorted collections to prove me wrong

nberrington wrote:My head hurts! MR had a gazzillion different brake arrangements !Mr Essery’s fine work has photos of D305 with - brakes on one side- brakes on both sides handles on one- brakes on both sides with handles on both sides, but facing the same way!